Have played a tough schedule but no real marquee wins. pitt and k-state are solid, minnesota on the road is good but looks less impressive now than it did. I'd probably have indiana, duke (better wins), miami, gonzaga, syracuse, florida, msu, and possibly arizona though they have no real great wins either. That puts us at 7th or 8th and you could still make an argument for kansas though their schedule is easier. I'm not saying we are worse than all those teams, just that our resume matches up with those and how you choose to shuffle them around is mostly bias.

For real? He asked what we would be ranked tomorrow and I gave him my honest opinion of 10-11. I guess its trolling unless I say we will be #1 in the country tomorrow even though we have dropped 3 of 4 and had a really hard time with a crap Penn State squad? Flamebait, what a joke.

Until Kelly comes back. If he comes back healthy they will be just as scary as they were at the start of the season when they were blowing through top 5 teams. Hopefully Morgan has that same effect on our squad...

Reporter: “Did you visit the Parthenon while in Greece?”
Shaquille O’Neill: “I can’t really remember the names of all the clubs we went to.”

When they where blowing through top 5 teams like Kentucky and Louisville?

It's late in the season and alot easier to judge who is good and who isn't. It's a down year for college basketball but the big ten easily has 4-5 teams in the top 10 and 5-7 in the top 20.

Reminds me of the tourneys back when the big ten would have 4-5 teams in the sweet 16 and 2-3 in the final four. Michigan struggled onthe road vs. a good MSU team , name one team who wasn't struggled horribly in atleast one game. While you're at it name another who would have played better. Seriously they played Indiana , Wisconsin and MSU on the road 95% of college teams would go 0-3 in that stretch.

Until Michigan gets stronger defensively and stronger inside both defensively and offensively this seems like a sweet 16 team. They have the pieces to be an awesome team but college basketball doesn't really allow teams to gel for more than one season anymore.

From an offensive standpoint, Maryland actually played some inspired basketball, shooting almost 13% above their typical effective FG%, whereas Duke actually put in what for them would be an average performance by most measures. Then again, anything which gives Coach K a sad makes the world a better place at least for a moment or two.

"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

were pumped up! I live in the DC area and was listening to the sports station for a while this afternoon while students were being interviewed. The fact that Maryland is joining the Big Ten made them really pumped about this game, and they were all enthusiastically predicting a Maryland win.

Harbaugh football is not just "hit 'em in the mouth." There are sophisticated strategies, but they all serve a physical approach. As a defender, you know that after all the deception, someone big is going to run into you.